As ESPN previously reported, WWF, Greenpeace, Defenders of Wildlife, Pew Environment Group and others produced a document entitled “Transition Green” shortly after Obama was elected in 2008. What has happened since suggests that the task force has been in lockstep with that position paper.
Then in late summer, just after he created the task force, these groups produced “Recommendations for the Adoption and Implementation of an Oceans, Coasts, and Great Lakes National Policy.” This document makes repeated references to “overfishing,” but doesn’t once reference recreational angling, its importance, and its benefits, both to participants and the resource.
Additionally, some of these same organizations have revealed their anti-fishing bias by playing fast and loose with “facts,” in attempts to ban tackle containing lead in the United States and Canada.
That same tunnel vision, in which recreational angling and commercial fishing are indiscriminately lumped together as harmful to the resource, has persisted with the task force, despite protests by the angling industry.
As more evidence of collusion, the green groups began clamoring for an Executive Order to implement the task force’s recommendations even before the public comment period ended in February. Fishing advocates had no idea that this was coming.
Perhaps not so coincidentally, the New York Times reported on Feb. 12 that “President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities.”
After reflection on Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, I am left with one overarching conclusion: while boring, preachy, dull, overly serious, then flipping to overly jocular tones while trying to balance pandering to the middle class with holding his base — Barack Obama’s State of the Union address was a declaration of war on the free market. more…..
Everything changes except President Obama. His agenda doesn’t change. He has had no second thoughts about the wisdom of his health-care policies, or any of his policies; resistance is always and only a reason for redoubling. Also unchanging is the condescension with which he articulates his agenda: He faulted himself for not explaining health care well enough to the easily confused American public. The same familiar strawmen dot the landscape of his rhetoric. (Republicans want to “maintain the status quo” on health care. This president is willing to listen to Republican ideas, just so long as he can then forget that he has ever done so.) Narcissism, too, is a constant companion. The opening of the speech, and the end, invited us to regard Obama as the embodiment of the nation. But it is not the country’s future that has suddenly come under doubt. It is his administration’s. It is not the country’s spirit that is in danger of breaking. It is contemporary liberalism’s. more…..
About an hour after the end of his State of the Union address, in which he called for an end to the partisan conflict that has plagued his first year in office, President Obama sent out a political fundraising appeal through his permanent campaign organization, Organizing for America. more…..
Two videos - the first is of Barack Obama on the campaign trail promising over and over that the healthcare negotiations would be covered on CSPAN, the second is of Robert Gibbs refusing to directly answer press corps reporters questions today (Jan 6, 2010) about this very obvious and very, very major lie.
Now here’s Gibbs on January 6, 2010 (turn volume up, it’s a little low):
It’s worth pointing out with regards to Gibbs’ assertion in this video that “we covered this yesterday”, well, the reality is he ducked the question then, too.
Robert Gibbs, ladies and gentlemen, possible the only man in Washington, DC even more despicable than King Zero.
Quick quiz: What do these enterprises have in common? Farm and construction machinery, Tupperware, the railroads, Hershey sweets, Yum food brands and Yahoo? Answer: They’re all more profitable than the health insurance industry.
In the health care debate, Democrats and their allies have gone after insurance companies as rapacious profiteers making “immoral” and “obscene” returns while “the bodies pile up.”
Ledgers tell a different reality. Health insurance profit margins typically run about 6 percent, give or take a point or two. That’s anemic compared with other forms of insurance and a broad array of industries, even some beleaguered ones. more…..
Lies, damn lies, and pretty much anything that comes out of Obama’s White House.
WSPA first reported the mandate on Wednesday after an anonymous citizen faxed a copy of the memo to our newsroom. [Wellford Mayor Sally] Peake was out of town and unavailable for comment. On Friday, reporter Chris Cato caught up with her in her office and questioned her about the origin of the policy. Peake says she issued the mandate because several officers have been injured during chases, driving up insurance costs for the town.
“The officers are costing us more money on insurance than most citizens here in the city of Wellford are even earning,“ says Peake.
She says the city is paying out $20,000 annually in workers’ compensation claims, much of it due to the police force. In July, two officers wrecked their cruisers while chasing suspects and had to go to the hospital for minor treatment. The police chief says three officers have been injured during foot chases in the last two years.
Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright says the policy prevents police from upholding the law—a direct violation of their constitutional oath.
“If a bank robber or a drunk driver or a shoplifter or somebody with a warrant runs on foot, it’s our obligation to do what we can do to bring them to justice,“ says Wright.
But when we asked Peake about her order impeding an officer from stopping a crime in progress, she became defensive and irate. The conversation went as follows:
Reporter: “Are you telling your officers if they witness a crime - they witness someone commit a crime on someone else and they’re ten yards away - they can’t go stop that person?“
Peake: “Is that in there?“ (referring to policy)
Reporter: “It says no chases whatsoever.“
Peake: “Well, that’s what I said, no chases, didn’t I? I didn’t say nothing about a crime. If you see a crime, this that and the other -“
Reporter: “Well, that’s what a chase is - “
Peake: “Well, I told them no chase on foot, and (the police chief) know exactly what I mean, so you’re trying to twist what I -“
Reporter: “No, I’m not. You said no chases. No chases means no chases.“
Peake: (claps hands) “You got you a story, thank God! You are so sweet! You got you a story on a woman in Wellford! Hallelujah! I’m so proud of you, Mr. Cato!“
If I were a criminal, I would be on my way to Wellford, SC right this very minute.
If I were a Wellford resident, I would be doing two things:
Making sure my firearms are loaded and ready
Starting immediately, pursuing all legal means of removing this dangerously incompetent and and severely unstable woman from office.
A commenter on the WSPA article had the following to say about Peake:
I have noticed that the people who don’t live in Wellford are mistaken if they think we have not tried to have Sally removed from office. We have contacted the Governor (excuse me 2 Governors), the State Voters Commission, SLED (to investigate where all the fire depts Money went after she disbanded them and threw them and the Rescue Squad out of town hall) and the Attorney Generals Office (2 of them also). Not One of them did anything, it was like she couldn’t be touched (sounded really fishy to me). They even did an audit and still could not tell anyone where the money went. Sally would not let anyone have or even see the audit even though we tried to make a big stink using the “freedom of information act”.
Sally was voted out of office every time the election was run and then came out the box of absentee ballots, from the apartments and the nursing homes (most of the pts couldn’t tell you their name).
Before she was mayor,our Fire and Rescue volunteers had dinners, Bakery sales and yard sales,earning enough money to build a 2nd floor on our town hall. We did all the work with the help of our volunteer that was a contractor. So you all can see we have been going through this mess for quite a while. We are at our wits end. We want it all back like it used to be. We were all there in 1 building having family cookouts, cooking barbeque all night and the entire community was welcome. Channel 7 Problem Solver we have a problem for you!!!!!!! HELP!!!!!!!!!!
No doubt the Obama administration is considering a cabinet position for Peake.
Here are the videos. First is the edited televised version (2:11), second is the unedited raw version (7:06). They have to be seen to be believed.
